Candidates Vie For Support Of Black Voters; Bloomberg Remarks Cause Controversy
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🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Michael Bloomberg, along with other candidates, hope to earn the support of black voters and erode Biden's base. For Bloomberg, his past remarks about black men and crime, "stop-and-frisk" policing, and housing discrimination could make that difficult.
This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, demographics and culture correspondent Juana Summers, and national political correspondent Don Gonyea.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi! This is the ice cord drilling team in the Allen Hills and Artica. We are |
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| 0:20.4 | Thursday, February 13th. Things may have changed by the time you hear this and |
| 0:24.8 | hopefully we'll all have taken a much needed shower. Okay, here's the show! |
| 0:32.7 | One, that's amazing and two, you think campaign life is hard, imagine camping on |
| 0:39.8 | an ice block in an article. Hey there, it's the MPR Politics podcast, I'm Susan |
| 0:45.6 | Davis, I cover Congress. I'm Wana Summers, I cover demographics and culture. |
| 0:49.4 | And I'm Don Gagne, I cover national politics. Now I am here in warm and cozy |
| 0:55.1 | Washington, DC but where are you guys? You're out on the road. I am in downtown |
| 0:59.0 | Columbia, South Carolina where I am checking in with campaigns ahead of the |
| 1:02.6 | states' February 29th primary. And I am on the Mike Bloomberg campaign bus. We are |
| 1:08.6 | rolling somewhere between Greensboro, headed toward Raleigh, North Carolina, |
| 1:14.4 | where he's campaigning today. Don, I picture the billionaires campaign bus to be |
| 1:19.7 | all champagne wishes and caviar dreams. Is it is it butler service, diamond |
| 1:23.6 | crusted seats? What's it like? Not so much. I had a good turkey sandwich |
| 1:28.0 | though. All right Wana, I want to start with you because you're in South |
| 1:32.8 | Carolina, obviously one of the important upcoming contests. And former Vice |
| 1:36.9 | President Joe Biden has put so much stock in the outcome of the South Carolina |
| 1:41.4 | primary. What can you tell us? What are you hearing on the ground? Yeah, that's |
| 1:44.8 | absolutely right. So Joe Biden's ability to mobilize black support here for |
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